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No, war isn’t won by gaining new territory. War is won when the goals of the one of the belligerents have been achieved. On 24th February Vladimir Putin stated that the goal was the “demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine”. The Russian military expert view at the time was that it would take five days. Eight weeks later he appears no closer to achieving his goals. Instead, by invading a sovereign territory he has:
- Killed innocent civilians and been justifiably accused of war crimes
- Lost at least 20,000 troops
- Suffered embarrassing military setbacks in northern Ukraine
- Lost his flagship of the Black Sea fleet
- Led to an increase in the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian army, including at least 20,000 new volunteers from other countries
- Made enemies of nearly every democratic nation on the planet
- Ensured the expansion of NATO in Europe
- Triggered a large increase in NATO spending on defense
- Crashed the Russian economy
- Ensured that all Russians will be hated by Ukrainians for generations
If the campaign in Donbas were successful (as you put it) it would be difficult even for the Kremlin to spin that as a “win”.
So they opened up 3 fronts for shíts and giggles? Or maybe they just thought they'd do a bit of raping and executing before heading south.
Either way, didn't go too good for them. Where do you expect all this extra hardware for Total war to come from. Your tank and helicopter factories just shut because they have no parts. Maybe a few Postman Petrov vans could be shipped down to ferry your hero's round the front.
Putin has one war aim. Distract you poor saps by creating boogeymen in case anyone might get any ideas about moving him on. He'd kill you, your family and every single solider he has in order to maintain his own sorry ass. And you don't even have the common sense to realise it.
Your own post and link show that it would be short term pain and nothing that Germany hasn't weathered in the last 20 years.
While the extermination of Ukrainian democracy, mass war crimes against humanity, including mass murder may not weight much in Germany over good relationships with Comrade Putin, it's actually a big deal.
The damage to Germany in Eastern Europe, where it is now viewed as verging on as hostile through its sheer coldness to their survival or the welfare of Ukrainian civilians.
That damage will last long past Russia's inevitable defeat.
"Russia actually being civilized with the attacks." Where exactly are you getting your information from on how the Russian military is conducting their invasion?
I hope you didn't have your car left in your buddies garage in clane ! It might have a bit of smoke damage!
Russia actually being civilized with the attacks
You need serious help
That's a don't challenge my posts type .
Or do people believe they can just parachute heavy artillery into a country and expect soldiers to operate it effectively without hands on experience
Explain what denaizification means to you?
Dude, you need to watch more Russian state TV... they are going apeshıt over how bad things are going.
Do an ET and phone home. You're waaaaay off message
Five attack fronts. With the bulk of the Russian army attacking the east and the south of the country.
Have a solid point if Putin send the majority of his army at Kyiv but he did not. This was never the main target for the operation.
Keep ignoring Putin’s war aims. Demilitarise the Donbas and denazify the Ukrainian military.
Why do you think it is the Russian tv channels keep saying daily declare war on Ukraine? Know this is a not real total war against Ukraine. There surrounded cities, but there not bombed and destroyed by the Russians. Look at every war for the last century, cities are bombed until all is left is rumble. Russia actually being civilized with the attacks.What stopping them from leveling Kharkiv and Odessa or any small city?
Expectation you had Putin would occupy Kyiv with 40,000 soldiers?. Kyiv has 3 million people. I dont know what the goal was but certainly wasn’t to take the city. I think ( viewpoint) it was probably to lock down the bigger force holding the north so it could not help turn and help the smaller force to the east and south. Maybe the 40,000 forces performed poorly or could be they were given orders to be mindful of civilians and buildings which hindered their progress. Russia got vast amounts of artillery not much of it was used.
There was quite a questionable video of spotless clean guys with no badges or tape pretending to be surrendering Ukrainian marines in Mariupol. Is that the e one you are talking about? After 50 days fighting with little water and food, it was great to see that they looked well fed and had saved enough water for hot baths for everyone.
As expected, bizarre views.
Russia had more territory 6 weeks ago than it has now. They are losing equipment at the rate of 3 to 1. They've lost more men than the US lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined, in 20 years. What was supposed to be a quick "operation" has turned into a quagmire. They still have a large potent army but they are struggling to match their week 1 gains, they have been struggling to take one key city for 6 weeks now. A country with a much smaller (on paper) military is holding them almost to a stalemate.
Maybe they suddenly start clawing more than a few kilometres a day and they take a much larger swathe of East Ukraine, then what? How does a sanctioned country with an economy smaller than Texas and such a demoralised army hold so much hostile territory?
Going to be interesting mental gymnastics performed over this by the Kremlin and their supporters that's for sure.
Military assistance to Ukraine 2014- 2021 ~~ PDF
^^^ Hopefully Not to be used by twosiders as proof of poking the bear.
Cue the people who will claim "I bet they've already been training them since day 1"; and yet all of the evidence points to that not being the case.
How could they train them on something they haven't been given yet.
That would be video that's 2,980 bodies short of your 'few' thousand.
And id question if they can hold Mariupol.
If they had spent more time fighting and less time looting white goods and raping toddlers they may have made advances worth talking about. Instead they took a tiny part of Ukraine which was already in conflict and only succeeded in mariupol by leveling it. So they effectively 95% took a wasteland. If that's winning how do you spin the complete failure that was the Kyiv offensive.
More than one meaning for occupied. dictonary: "being used by someone; with someone in it ( the Ukraine forces clearly are there using the city for defensive purposes). In your context, you say military occupation.
Maybe am wrong in how I used the word, not a big deal.
If they have the coast could they get in a few fast boats with supplies/reinforcements?
Again you mention mercenaries without any proof. Do you have any proof or are you merely trolling ?
Keep in mind someone fighting primarily for idealogical reasons and not money is not a mercenary.
Hold three important cities previously occupied by Ukraine forces hows is that examined as a failure? Only in the west would it be after only a month of fighting.
Ukraine never "occupied" Ukrainian cities. That would suggest that they had invaded themselves.
They still control parts of the city not just one plant latest map i seen red russian controlled rest still ukraine areas still big enough areas
Maps from this guy he updates daily
https://youtu.be/8Yns4kIrbtI
War is won by gaining new territory.. (the Russian army is so far taken new territory) annexed it.
This is a war taking place on multiple fronts, with heavy fighting taking place in cities and big towns, and a big obstacle for the fight to not be over quickly is the Ukrainian army is not a small army. There were allegedly 300,000 soldiers- which means they had a 2-1 advantage over the Russians and probably a higher number today since men not part of the army joined up after the invasion and the foreign mercenaries came to the country to help Ukraine. Plus now Nato providing the logistics to keep Ukraine stay in the fight. Did the Iraq army and Afghanistan army receive this kind of support from world powers? No, they did not. This is substantial support to fight Russia and can now be viewed as an American proxy war ( the Ukraine military used as the boots on the ground to stop the Russian advances cold) Ukraine receives real-time intelligence and assessments from Nato about Russian movements and their concentrations of forces inside Ukraine so its lot harder for the Russians to take Ukraine army by surprise on the battlefield.
The reality is this. Ukraine was adding on Twitter they had launched a counter-offensive to retake Kherson weeks ago, but nothing had actually shifted on the actual front line. While Russia on the other hand about to take another city in the south of the country- Mariupol ( a city that Russia actually wanted to take) at the beginning of the war.
The offensive in the Donbas if successful achieves most of the aim here to demilitarise the Ukrainian military in the east and south. Ukraine's army would then be forced back North to Kyiv in hurry ( if they can get out that is). The defeat in the Donbas means Odessa will be an easier target for the Russian military to take.
U.S. to start training Ukrainians on the new howitzers "within days":
I have to say as the days and weeks roll by I become increasingly frustrated at the West's attitude to this whole thing. Why haven't they already been training on the damn howitzers? It seems to take them an eternity to make decisions; and then when they make the damn decisions they're just not ready to action them with any kind of speed.
Turkey hates Russia, I'd love to see Turkey go after them. They can't blame the West for that if it were to happen.
Must be easy enough to run a news agency when all you have to do is report whatever the government tells you to. You don't even need to hire actual journalists; just send out a few morons with cameras to wave around and point at burning stuff and make up stories about what happened.
I'm pretty sure that the actual Russian claim is that over the course of the battle for Mariupol they have captured 1,464 Ukrainian troops; not that they were captured in a single day. And naturally if Russia is claiming a number I think it's safe enough to at least halve it.
Also talk of mercenaries is pure rubbish. It doesn't suit Russia to admit people from all around the world are actually volunteering to fight Russia without any form of compensation; so they claim they're all mercenaries. And of course the ultimate irony here is that Russia actually is employing hundreds of actual bona fide mercenaries.
I suspect the number of foreign fighters in Mariupol is very small; since the area was cut off and then encircled very early on in the conflict. It would mostly be foreigners who had joined the Ukrainian forces sometime after 2014 but before the invasion. The three I know of are two British guys who moved there some years ago and one American citizen who reportedly was in Mariupol searching for his child.
Fúck me. She's quite happy to be upfront about total governmental control over the press and media and be "like China". And y'know I wouldn't be so sure that a large percentage of the Russian population who are just a tad right wing, actually right wing, wouldn't be right behind her and that's why she feels so confident in her pronouncements. In my own dealings with Russians living here, when such things came up in conversation, xenophobia and racism of a sort last seen in the West in the 50's, being blatantly anti Gay and anti semitic were pretty much a given and the consensus was that the West was off its head on these matters(I know of one a few years ago who along with a couple of other parents from that neck of the woods actually went to their kids school to complain about the "pro Gay agenda"). Their uptake of conspiracy theories around such subjects was also through the roof. They weren't anti Americans funny enough, at least back then and in the groups I had dealings with. They weren't anti Ukrainian either, but again this was way before Maidan and Ukrainains kicking out Russia's puppet. Which shows how quickly such feelings can be revved up.
And yes a +1 from me on nuclear power. Major initial expense, but longterm cheap and "green" and reliable power. It would also be less politically and economically vulnerable and would help soften the cough of oil producing despots like Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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